That’s true love A man has gone viral online after he secretly learned Korean for a year to surprise his wife and her family on their wedding day. Ben Carpenter, a TikTok influencer with just shy of 700,000 followers, revealed he had been taking lessons behind his wife Sohee’s back for nearly a year. Carpenter […]

2 years ago

‘I can confirm this was a lie’ Oppenheimer continued to smash records this week, becoming the first R-rated film to gross more than $10 million for seven days in a row. Cillian Murphy plays the titular J Robert Oppenheimer in the film and is joined by an all-star cast, with Emily Blunt as Kitty Oppenheimer, […]

2 years ago

He has a higher IQ than most adults A toddler has become Britain’s youngest Mensa member aged just three – reading fluently and counting in seven languages. Teddy Hobbs managed to gain entry to the exclusive organisation for the intellectual ‘elite’ aged just three years and nine months. The child prodigy from Portishead, Somerset, can […]

3 years ago

“The basis to express oneself in French remains fully in place in the EU institutions” France is making plans for French to replace English as the official “working language” of the European Union. The French government is taking over the presidency of the Council of the European Union in 2022, which will be the country’s […]

5 years ago

Bonjour, lecteur That means ‘hello, reader’ in French. At least I think it does. But since I don’t speak a huge amount of French I cannot be quite sure. We’re all living in lockdown at the moment, and this time presents us with the opportunity to learn some skills that we didn’t have before. You’ve […]

6 years ago